Not Since Carrie: 40 Years of Broadway Musical Flops by Ken Mandelbaum

Not Since Carrie: 40 Years of Broadway Musical Flops



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Not Since Carrie: 40 Years of Broadway Musical Flops Ken Mandelbaum ebook
Page: 384
Format: pdf
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780312082734


Jul 27, 2010 - There are many flops in the annals of Broadway history, but none-not even "Anna Karenina"-are as notorious as "Carrie," the 1988 musical adapted from the Stephen King novel and Brian De Palma film. So for a musical that it's failure became the title to the book "Not Since Carrie: 40 Years of Broadway Musical Flops" how did this revival hold up? In 2006, Theatre Couture launched Carrie: A Period Piece off-Broadway. I've been looking for some recording of this musical ever since I read "Not Since Carrie" several years ago. Not Since Carrie | Lady Geek Girl and FriendsAnother book I was thrilled to come across in my used book store ;s Performing Arts section was Ken Mandelbaum ;s Not Since Carrie: 40 Years of Broadway Musical Flops. Jan 23, 2012 - The failure is so famous that it's used in the title of a book: Not Since Carrie: 40 Years of Musical Flops. Mar 26, 2007 - Carrie - The Musical opened on Broadway in 1988 and became one of the biggest flops in Broadway history up to that point. Jan 21, 2009 - The Undertaker One of the best big men in the wrestling business, and a solid WWE worker for over twenty years doesn't change the fact that he's a Satan-worshipping, gravedigging zombie cult leader Death Incarnate who was a biker for a while back at the turn of the century. Mar 13, 2011 - Currently Reading: Not Since Carrie: 40 Years Of Broadway Musical Flops, Ken Mandelbaum. Mar 22, 2013 - Years before Julie Taymor and Bono infamously brought Spider-Man to Broadway, producer-director Harold Prince, songwriters Charles Strouse and Lee Adams, and writers Robert Benton and David Newman saw the potential in bringing It's been often repeated that Batman killed this Superman, that this comparatively “straight” musical was no match for the campy TV comedy (which employed numerous Broadway mainstays, from Ethel Merman to Eli Wallach). It lost millions of dollars and became a punchline for a .. Oct 31, 2012 - After 24 years this broadway flop has its first revival off-broadway. Its commercial failure on Broadway became so notorious that it was the inspiration for the book Not Since Carrie, a chronicle of Broadway musical flops of the latter half of the twentieth century. May 31, 2008 - Not Since Carrie: 40 Years of Broadway Flops By Ken Mandelbaum 1992, 372 pages. It was so hard to believe that anyone could try to make a can survive a 40 foot drop, just so she can be a youtube sensation. It is still considered to be the most infamous Broadway failure; Broadway historian Robert Mandelbaum framed his study of musical disasters with the show in his book Not Since Carrie: Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops.

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